Note: Be sure to update 0.00 to the value that you want to measure.

5.    Select the Log Data to test, and then choose Test Pattern.

6.    Choose Assign Metric.

7.    Enter a Filter Name, select a Metric Namespace and Metric Name, and then choose Show advanced metric settings

8.    Enter a Metric Value—for example, $.cpuUtilization.idle—and then choose Create Filter.

Repeat these steps for each additional metric that you add.

Automation

There are more than 60 monitoring metrics per RDS instance, and you can use a script to automate this process. See the

• MySQL
• MariaDB
• Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
• PostgreSQL

Specify the RDS instance that has Enhanced Monitoring enabled and the namespace where you want these metrics to reside—optionally, you can add the names of the metrics and the Region. If no optional fields are specified, the script will consider all the metrics to publish, and then use the Region that is specified by default in the file .aws/config using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Note: The script does not create metrics for "process list," so you might need to create filters manually, depending on which process you want to display.

The names of the metrics must be specified by the following pattern: